Revival
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Hey AM,
Hows it going?
Im finally sick of watching a couple years of progress (coming from a super skinny ecto to a moderate sized man haha) dwindle away. After several attempts to get back to the Iron have failed I now find myself having troubling fitting in my clothes and not in the good way either! Currently sitting around 202 or so at maybe 18-19%. Over the last few years away not only did I gain weight but seem to have lost a lot of mass so hopefully it will come back quickly but I've never felt like i remake gains easily so time will tell. Over the years trying to restart I have found that low volume programs don't work for me so I will not be doing any full body workouts but an Upper lower split probably 4 times a week. M,T, Thur, F. Im still kinda messing around with the exact lifts but all the big ones will be included except for floor deads but rack pulls will probably been included on upper days once a week and Romanian deads on lower days.
Diet will not be super strict as I've always been a big believer in IIFYM to a reasonable degree.
Alright so now to the part I need feed back on. So I need to figure out an overall plan for how to get my lifts back up and fat down ideally. Here are a few options.
1) Diet down my 17 lb or so i wanna loose over 2.5 months or so. pros to this is I get skinny faster but can't imagine my lifts will increase much if any as I never do well gaining strength on diets.
2) spend a few weeks at maintenance calories trying to get used to lifting again and get as much strength back as possible before I diet down.
3) Recomp with surplus on some workout days and moderate 500 calorie defecit on the other days. while it would be nice to accomplish both goals at once Im not sure how fast my body can recomp as I have never done it before and not sure how well my recovery will be considering how sore I will be for few several weeks.
Lastly I know cycling is not really a good solutions buuuttttt I will probably be starting one in the semi near future as a way of focusing my drive as I get more committed than ever when I know one is in my future…. plus I got enough SD to kill a cow i think around a years worth at 20mg straight haha So at some point this log will get much more interesting.
Any guidance will be appreciated and as always thanks for any support! I had a old account on here with 1000 posts and found the community really helped me stay focused and committed to my goals so I look forward to you all helping me again.
Nudez will follow once I get a wide enough angle lens =)
In the meantime I better throw this low fat cheesecake in fridge
Revival
Hows it going?
Im finally sick of watching a couple years of progress (coming from a super skinny ecto to a moderate sized man haha) dwindle away. After several attempts to get back to the Iron have failed I now find myself having troubling fitting in my clothes and not in the good way either! Currently sitting around 202 or so at maybe 18-19%. Over the last few years away not only did I gain weight but seem to have lost a lot of mass so hopefully it will come back quickly but I've never felt like i remake gains easily so time will tell. Over the years trying to restart I have found that low volume programs don't work for me so I will not be doing any full body workouts but an Upper lower split probably 4 times a week. M,T, Thur, F. Im still kinda messing around with the exact lifts but all the big ones will be included except for floor deads but rack pulls will probably been included on upper days once a week and Romanian deads on lower days.
Diet will not be super strict as I've always been a big believer in IIFYM to a reasonable degree.
Alright so now to the part I need feed back on. So I need to figure out an overall plan for how to get my lifts back up and fat down ideally. Here are a few options.
1) Diet down my 17 lb or so i wanna loose over 2.5 months or so. pros to this is I get skinny faster but can't imagine my lifts will increase much if any as I never do well gaining strength on diets.
2) spend a few weeks at maintenance calories trying to get used to lifting again and get as much strength back as possible before I diet down.
3) Recomp with surplus on some workout days and moderate 500 calorie defecit on the other days. while it would be nice to accomplish both goals at once Im not sure how fast my body can recomp as I have never done it before and not sure how well my recovery will be considering how sore I will be for few several weeks.
Lastly I know cycling is not really a good solutions buuuttttt I will probably be starting one in the semi near future as a way of focusing my drive as I get more committed than ever when I know one is in my future…. plus I got enough SD to kill a cow i think around a years worth at 20mg straight haha So at some point this log will get much more interesting.
Any guidance will be appreciated and as always thanks for any support! I had a old account on here with 1000 posts and found the community really helped me stay focused and committed to my goals so I look forward to you all helping me again.
Nudez will follow once I get a wide enough angle lens =)
In the meantime I better throw this low fat cheesecake in fridge
Revival
